HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
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Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2003 Table 6.17 (for local jails 1999-03), Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear series (for 2004-18), and Jails in Indian Country series 2000-18. The Survey of Jails in Indian Country was not conducted in 2005 or 2006. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer and Emily Widra, 2020)
This graph originally appeared in New BJS data reveals a jail-building boom in Indian country.
